IPOH: A mobile phone shop owner was slapped with eight charges over his failure to submit the Goods and Services Tax (GST) statement for the period of May until December last year.
Wong Kean Yik, 35, the owner of Sun Yi Telecommunication Trading, pleaded guilty to all charges which were read to him by a court translator in front of Sessions Court judge Murtazadi Amran.
Wong was charged with failure to submit the GST statements from May until December 2015 under Section 41(1) of the Goods and Services Tax Act 2014.
All the offences fell under Section 41 (6) of the same Act. They are punishable with a fine not exceeding RM50,000 for each charge or imprisonment of up to three years, or both, for each count.
Wong had asked the court to suspend the decision of the case to enable him to raise the money to pay the fine.
Murtazadi allowed Wong's application and deferred the decision to Oct 19.
The prosecution was conducted by Perak Customs prosecuting officer S. Morgan, while the accused was unrepresented.